Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
New Mexico workers compensation rates are cut an average of 4.2 percent
Nov 5 2006 // Rates are being cut for New Mexico workers’ compensation insurance premiums. The state Insurance Department has approved overall workers’ compensation rate reductions of 4.2 percent for the voluntary market and...
Open claims files handled by California Insurance Guaranty Association drop
Nov 5 2006 // The number of open claims files being handled by the California Insurance Guaranty Association (CIGA) has dropped from a high of 85,000 to around 48,000, of which more than 40,000 are the result of workers’...
Golden State Division of Workers’ Compensation proposes penalties against laggard insurers
Nov 5 2006 // California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation has issued a revised proposal of regulations that would penalize insurers and self-insurers that show a pattern of denying or delaying workers’ compensation...
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Nov 5 2006 // Douglas G. Hotchkiss, owner of the Dallas, Texas-based Hotchkiss Insurance Agency, hadn’t thought much about building “green” or environmentally-friendly structures. But he now says, “it’s a...
Calif. State Fund To Recieve $35,000 in Restitution
Nov 3 2006 // An employee of a Chatsworth, Calif., construction company has been ordered to pay $35,263 in restitution to the California State Compensation Insurance Fund in a workers’ compensation insurance fraud case. Alejandro...
Washington Employers Save $315 Million in Workers’ Comp
Nov 3 2006 // Washington Governor Chris Gregoire announced that the state’s employers and workers would save an estimated $315 million in workers’ compensation premiums next year as the result of a six-month partial...
OSHA Cites Postal Facility in Vermont
Nov 2 2006 // The U.S. Postal Service mail processing facility is facing $44,250 in fines for what are being called “willful and serious” workplace safety violations. The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
OSHA Proposes $112,000 in Fines for Tuscaloosa Contractor
Nov 2 2006 // The federal government has proposed $112,000 in fines for GILCO Contracting of Tuscaloosa, Ala., after an employee was seriously injured at the city’s Cottondale Sewer Project, labor officials said Monday. “A...
Fireman’s Fund Makes Dividend Payment to Pharmacists Group
Nov 2 2006 // Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. announced that due to the success of the workers’ compensation insurance program with the California Pharmacists Association (CPhA) a $1.4 million dividend will be paid out to...
Virginia to Weigh Workers’ Comp Rates
Nov 1 2006 //
Flaherty to Succeed Keehfus as First Cardinal President, CEO
Nov 1 2006 // Latham, N.Y.-based First Cardinal LLC, a provider of third-party administrative services for workers’ compensation self-insurance groups, announced that co-founder and chief operating officer Richard S. Flaherty has...
Texas Truck Driver’s Fraud Conviction Nets Jail Time
Nov 1 2006 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that Arthur Menard of Spring, Texas, pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud-related charges and a Travis County district court sentenced him to 14 months in jail. The...
Study Identifies High Costs of Doing Business in Mass.
Oct 30 2006 // A new study by a Boston-based think tank shows that Massachusetts firms in nine selected industries including financial services have costs that are on average 20 percent to 30 percent higher than similar companies in...
Ohio Man Convicted and Sentenced for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Oct 27 2006 // A Brecksville, Ohio man was convicted and sentenced to one felony count of workers’ comp fraud. A building surveillance security camera captured Jerome J. Dobies delivering phone books to an Ohio Bureau of...
LWCC Stresses Fire Prevention Safety in the Workplace
Oct 26 2006 // In recognition of National Fire Prevention Month (October), Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation (LWCC) is reminding employers to educate their employees about fire safety in the workplace. The Occupational...
Chatsworth, Calif. CEO and Wife Arrested for Alleged Workers’ Comp Fraud
Oct 24 2006 // Three suspects in connection with a workers’ compensation premium fraud investigation conducted by the California Department of Insurance (CDI), Fraud Division have been arrested. A felony complaint was issued by the...
TDI Offers Assistance to Beaumont Residents Hit by Recent Flooding
Oct 24 2006 // Consumers affected by the recent heavy rainfall in and around the Beaumont area can contact the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) for answers to flood-related insurance questions. Typically, homeowners insurance policies...
Comp Administrator First Cardinal Adds Staff at N.Y. Headquarters
Oct 24 2006 // Workers compensation administrator First Cardinal LLC has hired several new employees at its Latham, N.Y. headquarters. Stacy Anuszewski, of Saratoga Springs, N.Y., has joined the claims department as claims...
News Currents
Oct 23 2006 // Insurance issues take back seat in Mass. governor’s race Insurance issues have taken a back seat to crime and taxes but there is evidence that the candidates locked in the race to succeed Massachusetts Gov. Mitt...
Declarations
Oct 23 2006 // Crisis in S.C. “The costs associated with the workers’ compensation system are increasing at a faster rate than in other states. That, coupled with the large assessment for the Second Injury Fund, creates an...
